Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.

I turned 40 in 2014. Obama was in office, Docker was barely a year old, and I was deep into a career trajectory that I thought was going exactly where it...

I spent eighteen years building systems for companies with names you'd recognize. Fortune 500 companies with six-figure infrastructure budgets, compliance...

I hit a wall in October 2024. Not a metaphorical wall — a real, physical, I-can't-get-out-of-bed wall. My hands were shaking from too much caffeine. I was...

I pivoted at forty-nine.

It was negative thirty-eight outside and I had just written the most productive code of my entire year.

I split a cord of firewood last Tuesday morning before my first standup call.

My phone buzzed at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. A Slack message from a client in London. "Quick question about the API integration — can you take a look?"

I spent most of my career being the guy who knew things.

There's a weird thing happening in tech right now that nobody's talking about. While the industry obsesses over new grads and junior devs learning to...

Three years ago I couldn't walk up the hill behind my cabin without stopping to catch my breath. I was 49, I'd been sitting at a desk for the better part...

I used to work seventy-hour weeks and convince myself it was ambition.

Last Tuesday I closed my laptop at 2:30 PM, laced up my boots, and walked three miles through birch forest with nothing but a thermos of coffee and a dog...

Last January, it hit minus 38 in Caswell Lakes. Not wind chill — actual air temperature. At that point, the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius...

Last year I applied for a contract role at a company that shall remain nameless. The recruiter was enthusiastic on the phone. My experience matched...

Last Tuesday at around 10 PM, I was debugging a database migration while the sky outside my office window turned green.

Three years ago, I was sitting in a rental in Boise, staring at a terminal, and feeling absolutely nothing.

I almost didn't write this article.

There's a particular kind of silence that happens at 9 PM in Caswell Lakes, Alaska in January. It's negative thirty outside. The aurora is doing something...

I turned 52 this year. I've been writing code professionally since I was 19. That's 33 years of shipping software, watching paradigms come and go, and...